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I have a couple of suggestions for this.

1. You can 301 redirect the pages/posts that are low-quality to higher quality/more relevant pages, or you could even decide to rewrite the topics to update them in a new post to improve the content and then 301 the old posts to the updated content. If you decide to 301, you should make sure to use a rel=canonical tag so Google knows what pages are the right ones to index.

2. You can also recycle your high performing content into new posts. For example, if you had a post that was 10 Best _____ for 2010, you could rewrite the same post now, updating any neccessary info, and name it 10 Best _____ for 2017.

Hope that helps some. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Can you provide the phrase and where you were searching from?

I think Option B is the right way to go. From a hierarchical standpoint, Option B is much easier to digest, which is beneficial for the user, Google, and your SEO efforts.

For example, your URL bigbangthemes.net/wordpress-themes/wordpress-ticket-system.

I know I am on bigbangthemes.net. I am looking at WordPress themes. I am currently looking at the WordPress ticket system.

In addition, I think it would make sense to incorporate your niches into the URL structure as well. So maybe go with /wordpress-themes/ecommerce or /wordpress-ecommerce-themes/theme-name

It might be affecting your domain authority, but I would be more worried about those pages negatively affecting your rankings if the large number of pages are creating a poor UX due to a complicated navigation structure or if users are having difficulty finding the content they want. Overall I would say a general rule of thumb should be: does this content serve a purpose and provide value to our visitors? If the answer is no, then I would 301 to a page that provides value. If it's yes, I would keep the page.

Instead of sending low-quality pages to a different domain than your high-quality pages, I think it would make more sense and be more beneficial to 301 them all to the new domain, except you'd redirect those low-quality pages to either a similar, higher-quality page or to the home page of the website. I don't think there is much value in using two domains in this scenario. If you don't want the pages, they just shouldn't exist on the new domain and should be redirected to better content.

Instead of sending low-quality pages to a different domain than your high-quality pages, I think it would make more sense and be more beneficial to 301 them all to the new domain, except you'd redirect those low-quality pages to either a similar, higher-quality page or to the home page of the website. I don't think there is much value in using two domains in this scenario. If you don't want the pages, they just shouldn't exist on the new domain and should be redirected to better content.

I think Option B is the right way to go. From a hierarchical standpoint, Option B is much easier to digest, which is beneficial for the user, Google, and your SEO efforts.

For example, your URL bigbangthemes.net/wordpress-themes/wordpress-ticket-system.

I know I am on bigbangthemes.net. I am looking at WordPress themes. I am currently looking at the WordPress ticket system.

In addition, I think it would make sense to incorporate your niches into the URL structure as well. So maybe go with /wordpress-themes/ecommerce or /wordpress-ecommerce-themes/theme-name

It might be affecting your domain authority, but I would be more worried about those pages negatively affecting your rankings if the large number of pages are creating a poor UX due to a complicated navigation structure or if users are having difficulty finding the content they want. Overall I would say a general rule of thumb should be: does this content serve a purpose and provide value to our visitors? If the answer is no, then I would 301 to a page that provides value. If it's yes, I would keep the page.